කමල් අද්දරආරච්චි
4 songs performed
Kamal Addararachchi (කමල් අද්දරආරච්චි), born Addararachchige Gunendra Kamal on 5 February 1962, is a Sri Lankan film and teledrama actor who is also remembered by music listeners for a small but enduring set of film songs. While his primary career is acting, his playback and duet recordings from the early 1990s gave him a second life on Sinhala radio and on lyrics sites, where his name still draws searches for the songs below.
Addararachchi was educated at Wesley College, Colombo, where he was active in the Sinhala Literary Society. He made his film debut while still a student, appearing in Gamini Fonseka‘s 1981 film Sagarayak Meda. Over the following decades he built a substantial body of work, appearing in more than forty films and around twenty teledramas.
His most acclaimed screen role came as Sobana in Jayantha Chandrasiri’s film Agnidahaya, for which he won the Sarasaviya Best Actor Award in 2002. He is also widely associated with H. D. Premaratne‘s Saptha Kanya, the film that connected his acting to his singing.
Addararachchi stepped into music in 1993 with the duet “Unmada Wu Premadare” (උන්මාද වූ ප්රේමාදරේ), recorded with Damayanthi Jayasuriya and featured in Saptha Kanya. The song’s aching depiction of separated lovers made it one of the most replayed Sinhala film duets of its era, and it remains the recording most listeners associate with his name. He later recorded “Thun Sitha Dahan Gatha Wela” alongside Neela Wickramasinghe, one of the most respected voices in Sinhala light music.
Beyond film, Addararachchi became a familiar television face as host of the first three seasons of the talent contest Sirasa Superstar. For music audiences, though, his legacy rests on those few mid-1990s recordings: a respected actor whose voice on “Unmada Wu Premadare” and “Thun Sitha Dahan Gatha Wela” still earns him a place in the Sinhala film-song repertoire that Lyrics-lk documents with translation and meaning.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by Kamal Addararachchi.